Road Trip!

This past weekend my cousin Olin got married in the San Diego Temple. S0, we took this wonderful opportunity to take a road trip. We left Friday after I worked for a few hours, stopping to pick up Trek and Jeremy along the way. Driving with three boys for seven hours wasn't exactly my idea of exciting. The mostly talked about cars, trucks, and, well, cars. Of course Trek set up his ham radio so there was a little command center in the back seat for a good part of the trip. Luckily we had beautiful weather and only hit moderate traffic in L.A. We got to the hotel in Carlsbad at about nine or ten and spent the rest of the evening hanging out with my family at the hotel.

Saturday was a blast. The wedding wasn't until two in the afternoon so we spent the morning at the Wild Animal Park! First we went on a tram ride around the park and saw really cool animals and pretty scenery. Then we spent another couple hours walking around and seeing the other animals. I think my favorite were the strange monkey things hanging out on an island and the lions.

    

After changing quickly at the hotel, we headed for the temple. This was my first trip to the S.D. temple and it is as beautiful as people say (though I still think the Sacramento Temple is even more amazing, but I might be biased). The sealing was great. We even had a little earthquake in the middle of it! Olin and Jentry looked so beautiful and totally happy. I had to hold back tears more than once. It made me remember our wedding day and all the mushy feelings that went along with it.

   

Then, we went back to the hotel to try to take a nap but as soon as I laid down I wasn't tiered any more so I just chatted with Kyle, Suzanne and Sam (we were all sharing a room and it was a lot of fun!). Going the the reception was a lot of fun. Mom had directions but we were following behind in our car. Well, Dad got a little lost. . . or was it one of his famous "short cuts". . . I'm not really sure. But we made it only a little late. The reception was beautiful. There was good dinner food as well as a candy table! Olin sang Jentry a song he wrote and the couple had there first dance and the father-daughter dance. You could just see how happy they are!

We left the reception a little early to visit Chad, a cousin on my mom's side that we hadn't seen in at least ten years. It was great to see him again and meet his cute wife and three cute kids (number four is on the way). It was a long day so we were happy to get back to the hotel and get some sleep.

Sunday morning we left at about nine. We traded Trek and Jeremy for Brandon so we could stop by Jenna's, another friend, in Yorba Linda. It was good to see here and visit for about an hour. She even made us sack lunches to take on our way, it saved us about half an hour. The trip home we didn't hit any traffic! but we did hit rain. Just after the grape vine it started misting and was raining pretty heavily by the time we got into Gilroy.

One of my favorite parts of the trip, was when Suzanne asked me to throw her a baby shower! She isn't due until July 4th but they will be in town the end of next month so we're planning it for then. I am so excited and already have lots of fun ideas. If anyone has any ideas or baby shower favorites, let me know.

I am so glad we had the chance to get away for a little bit and to support Olin and Jentry on this great occasion.